Fedora Sri Lanka Community and Mailing list

I am happy to announce that lk.fc.o[5] is active now.
Please contact us so that we can create an account for you and you can start posting. Please join with the Sri Lankan community group[6] so that any request can be made and ideas can be discussed.

"We are planning a GPG Key Signing event at FUDCon Blacksburg, which will be held on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 1600 (4pm). If you are
interested in participating, please add your info[2]
so we can compile a list of participants and keys. So far we have 22 keys signed up and we hope to have even more. That wiki page also has
more information about how we will conduct the event.

I intend to print copies of the GPG key list on either Monday or Tuesday, I will probably be waiting until Tuesday, but please sign up as
early as you can. I will also publish on my fedorapeople site a gpg signed copy of the key list. The current version[3] and the signature[4] will both be updated after the final list is generated.

If you don't get signed up in time, you can still participate, just bring printed slips with the output of 'gpg --fingerprint YOURKEYID'
printed on them to hand out at the event.

We will also be hosting a CAcert assurance event immediately following/in conjunction with the GPG keysigning event. Please see
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Blacksburg_2012_CAcert_Assurance_Event for more information and a place to sign up for that. We will have
enough assurers present for you to receive well over the 100 points that you need in order to qualify to become an assurer yourself. Please note
that if you intend to participate in the CAcert event, the name in your government issued photo ID must match the name recorded in your CAcert
account.

For more information on either event, feel free to contact me at nb at fedoraproject.org or nb at cacert.org

Wireless Access at FUDCon Blacksburg

"If you are attending FUDCon:Blacksburg next week (January 13-15), you need to request a guest internet access account in order to use the
guest wireless access on the Virginia Tech campus. It is requested that you sign up for this account PRIOR to your arrival at FUDCon. Pretty please.

Directions for obtaining wireless access are listed on the FUDCon Blacksburg wiki page[2]

However, since I'm really nice, I'll spell it out in this email as well:

FUDCon Blacksburg activity: Try my keyboard!

Sometimes, even the most hard working programmer/system administrator/graphic designer/packager needs to take a break and do
something fun. So this FUDCon, let's plan on taking some time on Friday to do something that's fun for computer enthusiasts of all ages -- try out
other people's hardware! Specifically, their keyboards, mice, graphics tablets, and other human to computer input devices.

In typical barcamp style, the devices present will depend on the attendees. I'll be bringing a couple of mechanical switch keyboards (yes, they still
make those ;-) and some of the design team members will be bringing some graphics tablets. If anyone has an IBM Model M, a Kinesis Pro, an MS
explorer trackball, or any other input device that feels "just right" to you we'd love to have you bring it along to share (and sign up on the wiki so we
know to track you down when the time is right.)

"As part of the announced cleanup after the mass password and ssh key reset, packages that had owners who were inactive at this time were orphaned.
comaintainer who were inactive were likewise removed from packages.

The perl-* packages owned by cweyl were reassigned ownership to mmaslano, one of the comaintainers under the assumption that this was what the perl
team would desire. If that assumption was wrong, some of those packages may be orphaned in the next few days as well:

Inactive package maintainers cleanup on 2012-01-10

Last year we asked everyone to change their fedora account system
password and upload a new ssh public key. The deadline for this was
2011-11-30. Those who had not uploaded a new key or changed their
password were marked 'inactive' in the fedora account system.

Some subset of those inactive users were/are package maintainers.
On 2012-01-10, we are going to remove these inactive users from package
acls. This will result in some packages being orphaned and available
for other maintainers. Any packages not owned prior to Feature Freeze
for Fedora 17 (2012-02-07) will be retired.

A full list of users and packages and acls affected as of 2012-01-06 can
be found at:

If you know a user who is currently inactive and affected by this
process and have a way to contact them, please ask them to change their
password and upload a new ssh key and they will continue to hold their
package acls.

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